There are many thoughts that go through people's minds and these thoughts later determine the mines put in place, whether one will fail or succeed in the life as well as at school. The way a person behaves has a positive or negative effect on their behavior and their environment. There are many theories as to why a person's attitude can change and be formatted. One theory that has been put forward is observational learning. Social psychology defines observational learning as “a basic form of learning in which individuals acquire new forms of behavior by observing others.” When a person learns through observation, they tend to adopt a new attitude. According to psychologists, it defines attitude as “a learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way.” There are three different elements that can make up a person's attitude. One being emotional, it is how a person or object can make a person feel. The second is behavioral, that is, people are influenced by others or by a certain thing, and the last is cognitive, that is, the way a person thinks about things or about his beliefs. Attitudes can also be learned in different ways and most people's attitude comes not only from behavioral problems but also from personal experiences. As a person ages, one may form one's own views about social learning through “the process by which we acquire new information, forms of behavior, or attitudes from others” (150). There are so many things changing in the world and new things appearing every day. Everything that wasn't popular in the early 1950s is popular today and makes people look at people in a different way. This is where attitudes towards people or the things people do are formed. That's when people start to form their own ideal or their own middle of paper... where they form because they lose their history and their culture. Along with stereotypes, Steele asserts that stereotypes affect minorities, making them less able to succeed. When students are not stereotyped, they are on track to be more successful because people don't look at them differently. Steel says that even in low-income communities, there are still African Americans achieving above average. When minorities integrate like everyone else, they have a chance to achieve their educational goal. Swell also explains the era of slavery, where slaves were taught to read and write. He believes that the educational gap cannot come from this but from other major problems that have occurred. Even if there is an education deficit in communities, if everyone comes together to support and help students, progress will be made..